bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

that is where i have less respect

Not 2nd preferencing means "if my first preference doesn't get in then I have no interest at all in distinguishing between the others", which is a level of nihilism that I can barely oh no wait which thread was this again.

Oh, I suppose that’s nice to know.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMOWYnvXYAAUcVG?format=jpg&name=large

An 'ally' speaks! xxp

xp it’s pointless imo at this stage because:

1) Starmer is clearly favourite and won’t need any 2nd prefs
2) he is the only candidate I would consider 2nd prefing in this contest
3) am I really going to 2nd pref Lewis, Phillips, or Nandy? No. Are any of those three likely to be in contention? Also no.
4) honestly get fucked with calling that a “nihilist” view

And lol I started voting in Ireland, I know exactly how transfers work ffs

Lol another 'black mark', this is kinda appalling

I'll be honest I find this really disappointing 😔 a really important cause, the commitment to child refugees, being used to gather data for a leadership campaign - it shouldn't be done pic.twitter.com/7e72v7O7ba

— 🌷 Chlöe 🌹 (@ChloeAHopkins) January 10, 2020

it's weird Andrew because i associate nihilism with going "any old terrible person/policies will do in a pinch"

yep, nihilism would be not giving a shit who leads the Labour Party next.

must've been pretty nihilistic voting for a war criminal and Thatcherite economics fan in the 2000s because "hey at least it's not the Tories"

Cringe, nihilism, my vocabulary increases everytime I refresh this thread.

say what you want about the tenets of neoliberalism lads, at least it's an ethos

I’m so intrigued as to how FAPs go down, is it like this all the time irl?

There's only one way to find out! (They're very civilised, there was a solid 20 minutes of me and xyzzzz__ chatting away at one last year)

Do ye just eyeball each other from across the room the rest of the time?

1) Starmer is clearly favourite and won’t need any 2nd prefs
2) he is the only candidate I would consider 2nd prefing in this contest
3) am I really going to 2nd pref Lewis, Phillips, or Nandy? No. Are any of those three likely to be in contention? Also no.
4) honestly get fucked with calling that a “nihilist” view

1&2 are very fair points here, yes. As regards 3, when you get far enough down the list it's a matter of spite - even if everything turns upside down, you're not getting my vote, you little fucker. Looking at the others and saying "they're all the same, nothing to choose between them" - yeah, I'll call that nihilism.

nah they are different, there's the racist one, the self-promoting careerist one, the misogynist one and the closet Tory one

No, they’re not all the same. I dislike them all for various reasons. None of them deserve my 2nd or any preference. Me not voting for any of them isn’t me thinking there’s nothing to choose between them, it’s me thinking that I don’t want to risk any of them benefiting from my vote in any way.

gyac the gaps are fine. Attend one.

I will at some point!

There is only one candidate who is going to keep to the best of Labour's policies, and develop new ones with the membership at anything like an organic process.

Anything else is *checks notes* nihilism

i forgot the "one who i forgot was running" one

Do ye just eyeball each other from across the room the rest of the time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDNhKJczElI

Cringe:

On Sunday I’ll unveil my manifesto, including a policy for a Constitutional Convention. This will give the British people an opportunity to discuss a written constitution, PR, the House of Lords & the Royal Family. I want the public to be more involved in our democracy, not less.

— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) January 10, 2020

agree with all of that tbfttl

They are not my priorities.

constitutional reform is gonna be necessary at some point

filtered through the Clive L brains trust, a lot of these things that sound perfectly reasonable policies on paper will be rendered bad most likely.

^nihilism ;)

he's an ex armed forces boorish macho twat. he wouldn't even put a 'doing in the Romanovs in the cellar' option on a royal referendum.

Words that didn't enter xyzzzz__'s vocabulary today: 'including'

"put them all to work in a care home" is surely the 21st century equivalent

The old ways are still the best. Swish swish!

I delve onto R4 for the first time in ages just now and the first thing I hear is an ad for a new Tristam Cunt show - the melts are coming back hashtag.

One of my best friends, who afaik has been a lifelong Marxist but also a pragmatist, is backing Lisa Nandy, for reasons I'm not 100% about but appears to be because she can win back the red wall. It's an interesting position given he is married to an immigrant but apparently she loves her too. I just said I have legitimate concerns about her.

lol! ppl are just fucking nuts!

A mutual friend has gone for RLB but he says it's a mistake because the media will slaughter her and the Labour party has to listen to people. I said maybe we shouldn't listen to people who say "be more racist". It didn't work for ed Milliband.

Why are they panicking? There's not going to be any more elections any time soon and there's ample time for the Tories to fuck people off, be they red wallers or not.

Thank you. That's what I'm thinking but am a political imbecile

I'm honestly stumped. there is only one candidate I'd be happy to vote for. Anyone other than RLB feels like just giving up. I am sympathetic to a pragmatist viewpoint and having any labour government is probably better than any conservative government. My preferred option of nuclear Armageddon now doesn't seem to be on any ballots

Love that Barry Gardiner has reviewed two things in twenty years on his Amazon account, a long and thoughtful review of his wifes poetry book and a precise review of the Natalie Portman Jackie Kennedy film pic.twitter.com/UZ8E0BJvbX

— Liam Fallon (@LiamCFallon) January 9, 2020

Just realised that review was actually when the campaign was suspended during the Manchester Terror Attack.

— Oscar Harrison (@oscarharrisonn) January 10, 2020

Yes he should have been there ready to take the perpetrator down.

Found this ‘traitors dartboard’ of iraq war critics The Sun made in 2003 – and had entirely forgotten about ... Robert Pires pic.twitter.com/u1xsoAhINm

— Fisted Away (@fistedaway) January 10, 2020

Jesus Christ!

What do we think about this Star Wars/Kylo Ren theory from Jess Phillips pic.twitter.com/UwFo7tVYvs

— the human personification of embarassment (@txtililibet) December 22, 2019

Last Friday, I watched the newly released DVD of “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” with my sons and their lovely autistic friend. Between us we decided that what appeared as the teenage tantrums of the new Dark Lord, Kylo Ren, was perhaps just him needing a bit of a “time out”. We concluded that perhaps he was autistic and just could not fit into the world he found himself in. Perhaps the new Death Star was just too noisy and made him feel stressed out. We thought he might wear ​the mask because he did not like eye contact. I am not sure that this was the film-maker’s intention, but it softened us to him. The group of people I was with “get” autism and ASD—they live with it every day—so they can see how a person’s behaviour might alter if things start to kick off. To all of us, it is not the person with autism who has the problem—it is the rest of the world. We have to think differently about people who think differently.

more proof that Jess and some parents of children with autism apparently, are fucking appalling and should be outlawed from talking about autism publicly. And of course everybody should be banned from talking about Star Wars publicly!

JFC

Did anyone else hear Thangam Debbonaire’s spectacularly rude attack on Ash Sarkar during BBCAQ last night? Epic melt twattery.

didn't sound very debonair!

Never voting for anyone who has a Star Wars fan theory

"The group of people I was with “get” autism and ASD—they live with it every day"

so that gives you a license to talk risible drivel about a section of humanity you know fuck all about.